The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-03-31
JOHN SHERNAN'S CAMPAIGN.
The Ohio senator Feeling for the
Presidency--zSis speech ut Nash
willie Thursday Nisht-NoneJed
Words to Catch Southern
Flies.

the Legislature addressed & Aollc
meeting tonight at which there was
a large attendace. He said:
Fellow-Citizens [ accepted the
invitation Of the Republican mem
bers of the Legislature Of Tennessee
to address them on this occasion, rot
so much with the hope that I coult
encourage them by auiexpression OF
the hearty sympathy of the RepuD-
licans of the United States in their
gallant struggle for Republican prin-
ciples, as from the belief I entertain
that a fair presentation made to the
people of Tennessee, without dis
tinction Of party, of the aims and
principles of our party, both in the
past and for the future, might induce
them to join with US in public pol
icy that will contribute to the in.
terest of the people of Tennessee,
and of the whole country, more and
greater benefits and advantages than
can possibly be conferred upon them
by the Democratic party.
have felt that the differences that
grew out of the war now hold large
body of honest and patriotic citizens
of the South from cooperating with
the Republican party, who, in my
judgment, are now in sympathy with
US; that perhaps might be able to
dissipate these prejudices by frank
statement of the views which have
actuated the Republican party in the
past, and thus bring US into co-ope-
ration in measures tending to adj
vance the common interests and
prosperity of our country. At all
events, I feel confident that the peo-
pie of Tennessee who, from its very
earliest settlement, have been dis
tinguished for their courage and in
dependence, will give stranger
among them a fair hearing for honest
opinions.
Sherman then related that in his
earlier political life he had been
disciple of that school of politics of
which Henry Clay and John Bell
were the leading apostles, but that
he had been driven into the Repub-
licsn party by the repeal Of the
Missouri compromise. The people
of the South, said Sherman, have
never appreciated the deep, strong
impression made upon conservative
men in the North by this most fatal
and foolish measure. We regarded
it not only as breach of personal
faith, but as threatened subversion
of the Constitution in making sla-
very a national institution and as
tending to subvert the Union; and
now, under the lapse of more than
thirty years, still regard it as moth
ing less than a crime, and therefore
I with the great mass of Northern
Wings and Democrats, as patriotic
duty resolved so far as I could,
I would secure to Kansas and Ne
braska free institutions and thus re-
store the statu quo. This was done as
I thought by the election of Abraham
Lincoln. Had this election been &C.
duiesced in the South now knows
how kind, forbearing and conserya-
tive would have been bis policy, for
of all the public men have met he
more than any other combined the
loving kindness of woman with the
moderation and wise forethought Of
statesman. He could truly say
that he would have ''charity for all
and malice toward none."
In all this preliminary struggle the
majority of the people Of Tennessee
stood neutral in the sectional con.
test. They stood for the Union and
the Constitution and the enforce
ment of the laws. They voted for
Bell and Everett on this broad na-
tional platform, and, if I am not
mistaken in current history. they
were pnwillingly drawn by Demo
cratic politicians into the fratricidal
contest. But when in it they did
their duty manfully and bravely,
each man according to his convictions
of duty. Your people divided on
opposite lines. sad bore more than
your share of the terrible losses and
sacrifices Of the war, 1t is over,
thank God, but the courage bravery
and fortitude Of both sides are now
the pride and heritage Of Us all,
'Chiak not that I come here to re.
proach any man for the part he took
in that fgut, OF to revive in the heart
of any one the triumph Of victory and
the pangs of defeat. I do not come
to make apologies, nor do | ask any
of you. The war was, perhaps, un.
avoidable; bound to come some time,
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